My Traitor's Heart : Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan – descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks – went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag.There he encountered first-hand the horrors wrought by apartheid: the poverty, injustice and violence.After an eight-year exile, he returned to write this book.With gripping stories and in mesmerising prose, this is Malan’s attempt to understand his country, its racial hatred, and his own tortured conscience.